a-new-method
Original: a-new-method on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A bearded prehistoric man in animal-skin clothing sits on a tree stump, gesturing as he speaks to a younger person (a child or youth) seated on a rock across from him.
Bearded man: "ME HAVE METHOD FOR KNOWING HOW MANY ROCKS YOU HAVE. CALLED 'COUNTING.' PUT UP FINGERS, THEN SAY—"
Young person (interrupting): "WE EVER USE THIS IN REAL LIFE?"
Caption below panel: "The first math class."
Votey:
Close-up of the bearded man's face, now angry/exasperated.
Bearded man: "Maybe you like real death?!"
A bearded prehistoric man in animal-skin clothing sits on a tree stump, gesturing as he speaks to a younger person (a child or youth) seated on a rock across from him.
Bearded man: "ME HAVE METHOD FOR KNOWING HOW MANY ROCKS YOU HAVE. CALLED 'COUNTING.' PUT UP FINGERS, THEN SAY—"
Young person (interrupting): "WE EVER USE THIS IN REAL LIFE?"
Caption below panel: "The first math class."
Votey:
Close-up of the bearded man's face, now angry/exasperated.
Bearded man: "Maybe you like real death?!"
Alt text
A prehistoric, cave-man-era comic. In the main panel, a bearded man in animal hides sits on a tree stump and gestures as he explains to a young person sitting on a rock: "ME HAVE METHOD FOR KNOWING HOW MANY ROCKS YOU HAVE. CALLED 'COUNTING.' PUT UP FINGERS, THEN SAY-" The young person interrupts, bored: "WE EVER USE THIS IN REAL LIFE?" A caption reads "The first math class." The joke: the classic student complaint about math being useless is shown happening at the very dawn of math itself. In the votey (an extra panel), a hand-drawn close-up of the bearded man's now-furious face, snarling: "Maybe you like real death?!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.